On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 9:07:09 AM UTC, news18 wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:22:36 -0800, Andre Jute wrote:


Go on, explain to us how the appointment of judges in Anglophone
jurisdictions excluding the US is a matter of "legal knowledge"
rather than "old boys appointing each other to plum jobs".

Because they do not rise to be considered without a sound history of
applying legal knowledge. Over here,the profession is very forward in
expressing their opinin of the capabilities of each candidate.

Quite. That's what I mean by "old boys appointing each other to plum
jobs". It's a closed shop.
I guess you missed the ones that are not "old boys"

Name them. Prove that they didn't go to the same school and college. Concede that this is just a little internal power struggle among the elite.

You do realise that yours is a neocon argument, don't you? And here we thought you claimed to be a leftie.

Andre Jute
Someone is dumber than two short planks, and it ain't me